Shanghai-based investment firm Puji Capital has launched a movie investment subsidiary, Puji Films. Its first investment is the backing of Peter Guber’s new Mandalay Endurance Ventures. MEMV is a joint venture between Mandalay Entertainment, Endurance Media and sports owner Jeff Vinik. Puji describes MEMV as a film production, financing, and international distribution platform with a… Read more »

Add Fox News boss James Murdoch to the growing list of business executives taking issue with President Donald Trump’s Charlottesville riot response.
Murdoch, the CEO of 20th Century Fox, the parent of conservative news channel Fox News, said he and his wife, Kathryn, would donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in the wake of Trump refusing to assign sole blame to a white supremacist/neo-Nazi group for fights on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville. Two factions, one…

James Murdoch, the CEO of 21st Century Fox, has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s controversial reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. In a memo to colleagues, Murdoch called the violence, in which one woman was killed and 19 others were injured after a car plowed into counter-protesters at a white… Read more »

With a week to go in a heated SAG-AFTRA election, Esai Morales has warned that his faction may file a federal election fraud complaint against union president Gabrielle Carteris. Morales is running for president as head of the Membership First faction, which issued a statement Thursday a few days after accusations by Carteris and her… Read more »

Last week, to celebrate the release of her hard-fought new album Rainbow, Kesha went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to sing “Praying.” And apparently, while she was backstage, she also covered the Animals’ version of “House Of The Rising Sun” with the Roots as her backing band. The show has now … More »